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Line 42: In the 1890s there were visits from the English [[Charles F. Newcombe]], [[George Amos Dorsey]] from Chicago and a Scottish guide named [[James Deans]]. These people were travelling to gather artefacts that might be of ethnographic interest. Their methods varied, but they frequently held little regard for the native Canadians. Keen had to angrily take them to task after he travelled to confirm for himself that visitors had not only raided graves but also not restored them to there former state. Keen found hair and coffins strewn about from where they had dug to steal skulls and bones. Keen wrote to complain about the desecration and challenged Dean to name his accomplices although he was clear that the benefactor of their work was the [[Field Columbian Museum]] and that the perpetrators were Americans. George Dorsey was known for his haste in finding artefacts was told of Keen's letter to the "''[[Times Colonist\|Daily Colonist]]'' and he argued that Keen's anger should be ignored.<ref name="cole">{{cite book \|last=Cole \|first=John \|title=Captured heritage: the scramble for Northwest Coast artifacts p175\|year=1995\|publisher=UBC Press \|url= https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yLDtoIuA75IC&lpg=PA175&dq=%22rev.%20j.h.keen%22&pg=PA170#v=onepage&q=keen&f=false}}</ref> The [[British Museum]] bought a number of artefacts from Keen, including a model of a house and an attached [[totem pole]] which had been carved by John Gwaytihl.<ref name="model">{{cite web \|title=Totem-pole / model building/structure / model\|url=~~http~~https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=532655&partid=1&output=People%2f!!%2fOR%2f!!%2f38444%2f!%2f38444-3-17%2f!%2fPurchased+from+Rev+John+Henry+Keen%2f!%2f%2f!!%2f%2f!!!%2f&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database%2fadvanced_search.aspx&currentPage=5&numpages=10\|publisher=British Museum\|accessdate=7 November 2010}}</ref> The museum also bought another 44 objects and received a description of the story that the totem pole was intended to tell. By coincidence the museum acquired a complete 39-foot-high totem pole that differed only slightly from the model in 1903.<ref name="bm">{{cite web\|title=Totem-pole \|url=~~http~~https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=531847&partid=1&searchText=totem&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=14\| publisher= British Museum\|accessdate=8 November 2010}}</ref> The museum now not only has the pole but it has a description of its significance and symbols.<ref name="joyce">{{cite journal\|last=Joyce R.A. \|first=T.A.\|title=A Totem Pole in the British Museum\|journal=The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland\|year=1903\|pages=90-\|jstor=2842995}}</ref> The museum bought the pole from Charles Frederick Newcombe.<ref name="bm"/> ==20th century activities==

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